Challenge
Poems That Stopped You in Your Tracks
Today The Prose Channel on YouTube featured a challenge several years old...here's your chance to tell us the poem that stopped you in your personal tracks as a writer...
“i thank you God, for most this amazing” e.e. cummings
i thank you God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits
of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and
for everything
which is natural which is infinite
which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;
this is the birth
day of life and of love and of wings
and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
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